SOURCE: Review of Letters of Edward John Trelawny, by Edward John Trelawny, The Athenaeum, No. 4341, pp. 7-8.

In the following essay, the anonymous reviewer discusses Trelawny's letters, which contain the “Trelawniness of Trelawny”—both the superficiality of some of his judgments and the depth of his enthusiasms.

Is there any other figure of the last century so well worth knowing and so knowable as Edward Trelawny? The volume before us is a picture of the man by himself, historically still unfinished, but, from a post-impressionist point of view, final. All that is most significant, all that distinguishes Trelawny from other men, is given; as the catalogue at the Grafton Galleries might say, the Trelawniness of Trelawny is completely expressed. For such a volume Mr. Buxton Forman was the obvious editor; in matters concerning Shelley, Keats, and their friends it is to him we look first for information. By...